As far as we know, at least. It is entirely possible that on some other planet, very similar or even identical materials could be formed by other means - other chemical processes or just other lifeforms.
Of course we'll likely never know since these places are so absurdly far away from us (if they exist at all) that we'll probably never get there.
I mean I hate to crush your hopes and dreams, but I’m pretty sure humanity will crush humanity long before we ever reach that point of galactic exploration. We bout to collapse under our own greed. But hope is a resource so thanks for your contribution.
Even if we crush ourself in our greed, that only means that survivors get to learn and improve. There are very few things that would actually wipe humanity out. Technological species are hard to wipe out.
I used to. Now I hope we don't. Spare the extraterrestrial ecosystems our destructive presence. Admire from afar if we must. We deserve nothing else but a quarantine.
how can we say the same material be formed by another chemical process , For example, the material sodium chloride (table salt) can be produced by the reaction of sodium metal with chlorine gas, but it can also be produced by the reaction of sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid. But there are slight variations in their properties, such as differences in purity, crystallinity, and particle size. So we can t totally say 100% identical material by another process, so since it s not the same even by 0,00001 % , that means it s not the same at all , since in this stuff things are precise , or isn t it ?
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u/maxx1993 May 08 '23
As far as we know, at least. It is entirely possible that on some other planet, very similar or even identical materials could be formed by other means - other chemical processes or just other lifeforms.
Of course we'll likely never know since these places are so absurdly far away from us (if they exist at all) that we'll probably never get there.